by James Wright | Sep 21, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Blog, Defense Manufacturing
ITAR and CMMC get treated as interchangeable in casual conversation, and they’re not. One governs who’s allowed to touch defense technical data. The other governs how securely you have to protect it once you do. Quick summary: ITAR (22 CFR Parts 120–130) is an...
by Accurate Machine & Tool Team | Sep 15, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining, Blog, CNC Machining
Open ten aerospace drawings and you’ll find ±0.001” on features that have no business needing it. That’s not because engineers are being careless — it’s because tight tolerance has become the safe default in a risk-averse industry. The problem is that “safe” and...
by James Wright | Sep 11, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Defense Manufacturing
ITAR gets talked about as though it’s a certification you pass once and hang on the wall. It’s not. It’s a set of federal export control regulations that restrict who can access defense-related technical data — including engineering drawings, CAD files, process...
by Accurate Machine & Tool Team | Sep 1, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining
A First Article Inspection isn’t a quality-control formality — it’s the documented proof that a part, a process, and a drawing all agree with each other before production begins. Quick summary: AS9102 defines the aerospace industry’s First Article Inspection Report...
by James Wright | Aug 28, 2026 | Aerospace Compliance & Quality, Aerospace Machining, Defense Manufacturing
First article inspection is the reason your first aerospace production run costs more than every run after it. FAI per AS9102 is a complete dimensional verification of every single feature on the drawing — not a sampling plan, not a spot-check. Every dimension, every...
